Negotiations to return to the JCPOA will resume in Vienna on November 29.
Negotiations between Iran and the P4+1 countries to return to the JCPOA will resume on November 29. The European Union's foreign affairs agency announced this on Wednesday night, November 3.
Senior diplomats from China, Russia, France, Britain, and Germany, led by EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, will meet with senior Iranian officials in Vienna on November 29. The talks will focus on Iran and the United States returning to the JCPOA.
Ali Bagheri Kani, Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, wrote on Twitter that in a phone call with Enrique Mora, Deputy Foreign Minister Josep Borrell, the date of December 29 for the resumption of the Vienna talks was confirmed.
US State Department spokesman Ned Price said the United States hopes that Tehran will return to the negotiating table with positive intentions and a readiness to talk.
According to him, Washington still believes that reaching an agreement on return is possible, along with a mutual understanding to preserve the JCPOA agreement.
These talks are a continuation of negotiations that have been held for six rounds since early this year and were suspended on the eve of Iran's presidential elections in June.
The remaining parties to the JCPOA are trying to bring the United States back into the deal. The United States unilaterally withdrew from the deal under President Donald Trump in 2018. In return for the US return, Iran will commit to re-implementing all of its JCPOA commitments.
Tehran gradually stopped implementing its commitments under the deal in 2019, a year after the US withdrew from it. The Vienna talks aim to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons in exchange for the lifting of US sanctions against the country.
Source: DW
